Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman and ranking member. As I sit here listening, I hear the words appropriately appropriate, poison pill riders, real losers American people, veto threats from the President, accept reality, and I ask myself: Who do I work for? I don't want to speak for any of my 434 other colleagues. I don't work for the President. I work for the 700,000 people that sent me here, just like other people work for people from different States. So the fact that I may disagree with the administration on something isn't news to anybody in a congressional context. But I sit here and look at this and I am thinking: My God, we are interfering with women's health directives. And I hear about the Affordable Care Act and the IRS cuts, and it is like I didn't get a great grade in civics, but I got a good enough one. Part of this role is oversight. That is the key of appropriations. So we are conducting that because there are differences of opinion. While one side advocates what they think is the right policy, the other side does the exact same thing. So to feign offense when somebody is doing what they think is right, I am not impugning the motives of anybody, but I have got to tell you, when I hear about interfering with women's health decisions and I think about the ACA and they are mentioned in the same sentence, I am like: Wow, I missed something there. Dodd-Frank, CFPB, it is like oversight. Not that we don't need it.…”